[B-Greek] OT: SPIonic and Windows XP (urgent help please)
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed May 4 21:28:50 EDT 2005
I think I've seen this before. Let me guess: you can type in SPIonic just
fine, but when you open a document created with an older version of Word,
the SPIonic comes out as boxes.
Word is interpreting the SPIonic characters as symbols. To confirm this, you
can press Alt-X after one of the SPIonic box characters, and it will convert
that character into a series of four hexadecimal digits beginning with "F".
If you change that initial F to a zero "0" and press Alt-X again at the end
of those four digits, you will get the SPIonic character you expected, am I
right?
If so, the macro you need to internally change all those F's to 0's is
something like the following:
Sub Symbol_To_ASCII()
OldText$ = Selection.Text
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Format = False
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchKashida = False
.MatchDiacritics = False
.MatchAlefHamza = False
.MatchControl = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Font.Name = "SPIonic"
On Error Resume Next
For c = 32 To 255
.Text = ChrW(&HF000 + c)
.Replacement.Text = Chr(c)
If .Replacement.Text = "^" Then .Replacement.Text = "^^"
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next
End With
End Sub
Ken Penner, Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of dlucas
> Sent: May 4, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] OT: SPIonic and Windows XP (urgent help please)
>
> Dear B-Greekers:
> For several years I have trusted SPIonic font on Mac (Classic) and on
> Windows 98. However, since March, I'm having tremendous
> difficulties with a
> good amount of texts I had writen with SPIonic: on WindowsXP and Word
> processor I can't see greek text but squares that are
> supposed to be SPIonic
> font. If I use WordPad I can see greek text but I lose
> format. Is there a
> way of getting the greek texts back. Has this problem
> anything to do with
> Unicode or with some setting I should modify? Thanks in advance.
> David Lucas
> Salamanca, España
>
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